Ever single person has been there. One half of your happy couple friends calls you and asks you to join them for lunch. You hesitate. "Come," they say. "It'll be fun," they say. "It won't be awkward at all." But it is.

Now, 29-year-old software developer and singleton Peter Alden has encapsulated the comic despair of the Third Wheel in one hysterical Instagram account: imnotathirdwheel.

According to BuzzFeed, Peter got the idea when Ben and Marissa started dating and Ben found that he was always awkwardly photobombing them. So he decided to have some fun with it and take things to the next level.

It's great to see such a tongue-in-cheek approach to a universal malaise. And don't worry, Peter, with that attitude, you won't be a third wheel for long—there's already interest in the comments section.

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